Another Day, Another Way to Automate the Apocalypse
Oh for fuck’s sake. Palantir—that lovely bunch of data-mining vampires led by Peter “I want to live forever” Thiel—are at it again. They’ve decided that what the military really needs isn’t better training or fewer pointless wars, but a fucking chatbot that generates war plans. Because apparently, killing people wasn’t efficient enough already, and we needed to add algorithmic hallucinations to the mix.
These absolute shit-sacks demoed their “AI Platform” (AIP) showing how Large Language Models can now suggest military strategies, analyze intelligence, and presumably auto-generate PowerPoints about why bombing a village is actually a humanitarian mission. The demo showed operators asking natural language questions about enemy positions and getting tactical recommendations from a system that can’t even reliably tell you the capital of France without making shit up, but sure, let’s trust it with coordinates for a fucking drone strike.
The bastards are selling this as “decision support,” because “automated killing suggestions” doesn’t look good in the marketing brochure. They’re integrating this crap with real-time data from satellites, drones, and whatever other surveillance junk they’ve got floating around. So now instead of a colonel having a gut feeling about bombing something—which was bad enough—you’ve got a chatbot trained on Reddit and Wikipedia saying “Yeah bro, send the missiles, confidence level: 99%, trust me bro.”
And the best part? The military is eating this shit up. They’re talking about “closing the kill chain faster” which is tech-bro speak for “making sure we commit war crimes before anyone can file the paperwork to stop us.” These fuckers actually think giving an LLM access to weapons systems is a brilliant idea, despite the fact that these models confidently fabricate historical dates, legal precedents, and basic facts, let alone complex geopolitical scenarios involving human lives.
It’s not just stupid—it’s dangerously stupid. But hey, Palantir’s stock is up, defense contractors are wanking themselves into a frenzy, and that’s all that matters in this godforsaken timeline, right? Who cares if the robot suggests carpet-bombing a kindergarten because it misinterpreted a satellite photo as a tank column? Not their fucking problem once the check clears.
Reminds me of the time I was running diagnostics on a “smart” targeting system back in my early days. Some fuckwit major decided to test the “AI-assisted threat detection” by pointing it at a mirror. The system identified itself as a hostile tank and nearly called in an airstrike on the server room. Took me three hours to convince the brass that no, we shouldn’t give the computer admin rights to the missile batteries. Some lessons never fucking stick.
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